I absolutely need to start playing the Mass Effect and Fallout series. I started ME1 but ended up selling it. I generally like to spend my money on SNES games that I don't have or haven't played. Just love those cartridges. My brother's repeatedly campaigned for me to play Fallout 3.

"i would get into FF, but its just a little too daunting of a task cause theres so many fucking games i wouldnt even know where to start."

There's really no wrong place to start. There's actually no continuity between releases (aside from recurring names). If I had to pick a starting place, I'd pick FFIX. That's probably the most "Final Fantasy" of all the Final Fantasy games.

As far as replayability, aside from games like Monster Rancher, my favorite game is Ninja Gaiden: Black for Xbox. It's been an on
and off affair for the last six years, at least, but I'm so close to beating it on the final difficulty, Master Ninja mode. I normally
resume during the winter holidays. If you think you've played a challenging game before.............

Honestly don't wanna reveal the number of controllers I've smashed over that game. The original NInja Gaiden games, similar to
all older, classic games, are difficult in a different way. Difficult/challenging, to me, are completely different when referring to
games 2D and 3D games. I draw that line between SNES/Genesis and N64/PS1/Dreamcast.

Shit, SNES and Genesis game are hard as fuck. I forgot how fucking hard the old Mortal Kombat games were till I popped one of those bad boys in a couple years ago. I was like, man, I didn't think I sucked THIS hard.